john weatherford is preaching from his jail cell in chesterfield county, he reaches out his arms, he's praying, he's got his arms out the windows, men come with knives and cut his arms. he had scars until the day he died. in a number of cases people would gather to hear preaching and anglicans, presumably, would ride through the crowd. if you've ever had a horse come at you, this is dangerous, it's frightening, and they would particularly beat the living daylights out of the blacks in the crowd, free or shave. free or slave. so this is the kind of thing that's going on. well, this heightens the question, it's an important discovery, it heightens the question, why is william mcclanahan willing to go fight for these people who were doing this to him? that leads to my second discovery which was really fairly simple. the dissenters made it clear to the establishment leaders, the people leading the revolution, you want us to fight, you'll give us religious freedom. and it was conditional. and they said that's going to be the deal. and over the course of the revolution, a back and forth betw